|
|
| |
Aglaia elaeagnoidea
|
| |
|
| |
Family:
MELIACEAE
|
| |
Citation: Aglaia elaeagnoidea (A. Juss.) Benth., Fl. Austral. 1: 383. 1863; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 63. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 109. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 95. 1985; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 100. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 116. 1990; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 61. 1995; Pannell, Kew Bull. Add. ser. 16, 143.1992; S.S. Jain & S.S.R. Bennet in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 461.1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 61. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 54. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 149. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 116. 2005; N.C. Nair & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 641. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 164. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 206. 2009.
Nemedra elaeagnoidea A. Juss., Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 19: 259, t. 14. 1830.
Aglaia roxburghiana (Wight & Arn.) Miq., Ann. Mus. Ludg.-Bat. 4: 41. 1868; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 180(128). 1915.
Aglaia wallichii Hiern in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 555. 1875.
Aglaia roxburghiana (Wight & Arn.) Miq. var. obtusa DC. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 605. 1878.
Aglaia roxburghiana (Wight & Arn.) Miq. var. beddomei Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 180(129). 1915.
Aglaia roxburghiana (Wight & Arn.) Miq. var. courtallensis Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 180(129). 1915.
Aglaia elaeagnoidea (A. Juss.) Benth. var. beddomei (Gamble) K.K.N. Nair, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 78: 426. 1981; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 109. 1990; S.S. Jain & S.S.R. Bennet in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 462.1997; N.C. Nair & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 640. 2005.
Aglaia elaeagnoidea (A. Juss.) Benth. var. courtallensis (Gamble) K.K.N. Nair, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 76: 476. 1981; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 109. 1994; S.S. Jain & S.S.R. Bennet in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 465.1997; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 149. 2002; N.C. Nair & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 641. 2005.
|
| |
Malayalam Name(s):
Punyava
|
| |
Tamil name(s):
|
| |
English name(s):
|
| |
Description:
Trees, to 15 m high, bark reddish-brown, smooth; blaze pink; branchlets 3-4 mm thick, covered with brownish scales. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; leaflets 5-7, opposite, leaflets 6-10 x 3-4.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-obovate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, apex acute, acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base oblique, acute or attenuate, margin entire, chartaceous, foveolate above, lepidote above and beneath; petiolule 10-18 mm long, lepidote scales present; rachis 60-80 mm long, stout, grooved above, swollen at base; lateral nerves 5-12 pairs, parallel, prominent, secondary laterals present, intercostae obscure. Flowers polygamodioecious, yellow, in axillary branching panicles. Calyx 5 lobed, campanulate, scaly, margins ciliate. Petals 5, free, imbricate. Staminal tube entire at apex; anthers 5, included. Ovary small, superior, slightly depressed, 1-2-celled, ovules 1-2 in each cell. Fruit a berry, globose, 1-15. cm across, buff coloured; seeds 1 or 2.
|
| |
Habit:
Tree
|
| |
Flowering & Fruiting:
November-August
|
| |
District(s):
All Districts
|
| |
Medicinal:
Yes
|
| |
Habitat:
Evergreen forests, also in sacred groves in the plains
|
| |
Distribution:
Indo-Malesia to Pacific Islands
|
| |
Aquatic:
No
|
| |
Epiphyte(s):
No
|
| |
Saprophyte:
No
|
| |
Stem parasite:
No
|
| |
Root parasite:
No
|
| |
Flower colour(s):
Yellow
|
| |
Weed:
No
|
| |
Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
|
| |
Exotic:
No
|
| |
Garden:
No
|
| |
Edible:
No
|
| |
Vegetable:
No
|
| |
Endemic to:
|
| |
IUCN status:
|
| |
Altitude:
|
| |
Localities:
Mukkola, Pothumala, Kariamchola, Ezhimala, Pamba anathode, Cheruvathur, Kalliassey, Taliparamba, Lock-hert gap, Marapalam-Pothundy, Ambalapuzha, Thazhakkara, Agasthymala peak
|
|